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The Continents
Topography
Mapping of the Earth's Surface
Topographic Maps
Grab Bag
100
The 3 continents that make up the largest land mass on Earth.
What are Europe, Asia, and Africa?
100
Tops of mountains
What is a summit?
100
The most accurate representation of the Earth.
What is a globe?
100
Shows the different shapes and sizes of land surfaces.
What is a topographic map?
100
Water, ice, wind, sand, and chemicals
What causes erosion?
200
A landmass that measures millions of square kilometers.
What is a continent?
200
The 3 main types of landscape regions
What are mountains, plains, and plateaus?
200
The 180th meridian
What is the International Date Line?
200
Lines on a map that pass through points with the same elevation
What are contour lines?
200
The 7 continents
What are Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, North America, South America, and Antarctica?
300
Located in the southern part of North America
What is Central America?
300
Broad, flat areas of land more than 600 meters above sea level.
What is a plateau?
300
Lines that run north and south and measure longitude.
What are meridians?
300
Contour lines show this
What are reliefs?
300
The time zone in this direction will be one hour earlier.
What is west?
400
Contains 90% of the ice on the Earth's surface.
What is the Antarctic icecap?
400
Landscape region with the lowest overall elevation
What is a coastal plain?
400
Lines that run east and west and measure latitudes.
What are parallels?
400
When a contour line passes through a river, the 'V' will point there
What is upstream?
400
There are 360 of these on Earth.
What are meridians?
500
Large areas of very old, exposed rock that form the core of a continent.
What is a shield?
500
Are usually volcanic mountains
What are individual mountains?
500
A map projection that shows the correct shape of coastlines but distorts the sizes of the regions near the poles.
What is Mercator projection?
500
Short dashes that represent a depression
What are hachures?
500
Colored red or brown on a topographic map.
What are contour lines?